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The Importance of a Piece of Paper
by Jimmy Santiago Baca“[Baca] continues to mine his experience, exploring conflicts between the rich traditions of Chicano culture and a modern world impatient with them. . . . His imagery. . . is…
The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad
by Roger Boylan“Boylan’s narrative resembles Joyce at his comically prolix best, with a similar appetite for vernacular nuance and pop allusion.” –The Village Voice…
Elvissey
by Jack Womack“Jack Womack is another of the heirs of cyberpunk, one of science fiction’s most interesting new writers.” –Los Angeles Times…
Black Spring
by Henry Miller“In Black Spring the old charmer is back at work, charming again. ‘This man, this skull, this music’ have good things in them, like a honeycomb. Henry Miller . ….
The Beholder’s Eye
by Walt Harrington“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…
Cleopatra Dismounts
by Carmen BoullosaAn enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic.” –Fabiola Santiago, The Miami Herald…
By the Grand Canal
by William RiviereAn exquisite novel redolent of Venice and the haze of World War I by the author of the award-winning Kate Caterina…
Anderson’s Ché Guevara
by Jon Lee Anderson“Excellent . . . admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched . . . It is unlikely that after Anderson’s exhaustive contribution, much more will be learned about Guevara.” —Los Angeles Times…
A Carnivore’s Inquiry
by Sabina MurrayThe spellbinding new book by the winner of the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award is a gripping, literary psychological thriller about a young woman and a peculiar taste for flesh…
A Symphony in the Brain
by Jim Robbins“If you thought biofeedback was a passing fad, freelance journalist Robbins will enlighten you. . . . [A] fascinating medical history of the therapy . . . At the heart…
